Schoolmates Farewell Susan

THE classmates of Susan Worrall formed a solemn guard of honour yesterday as her parents walked behind her hearse down a Sydney street - in mourning for one lost daughter and the other who is charged with her murder.

It's The Italian Job As Hackers Use 'tool Kit' To Steal Codes

Cyber crime's latest wave is unparalleled in scale, reports Ed Pilkington.

Apple Mac Downloads

PageSucker From: www.pagesucker.com Price: $US10 ($14.50) This cool little program "sucks" down entire Web sites and stores them on your computer's hard disk, so you can explore at your leisure (and at high speed) without spending costly time online. It's as simple as it is useful

Kendell: Built His Own Airline And Knew When To Fly Into The Distance

NOT MANY company chairmen leap to their feet in small cafe-cum-departure lounges of regional airports to serve elderly disabled customers cups of coffee. Fewer still look on their retirement as a "great opportunity" to get out the tool-kit their staff gave them as a leaving present to h

Knocking Off Work To Lay Bricks

Not many company chairmen leap to their feet in small cafe-cum-departure lounges of regional airports to serve elderly disabled customers cups of coffee. Fewer still look on their retirement as a "great opportunity" to get out the tool-kit their staff gave them as a leaving present to h

Impreza Owner Far From Impressed

BILL Liao, featured in last week's motoring column, has been reunited with his Subaru Impreza WRX. Police recovered the stolen Subaru after a chase and a collision last weekend. The car had allegedly been used in a ram raid and officers apprehended two teenagers. The Subaru sustained an estim

Impreza: It's A Steal

BILL Liao, computer engineer and visitor from Melbourne, was worried about parking his car in Camden Street, Newtown, on Monday night. He had heard about Sydney's epidemic of Subaru Impreza WRX heists, so he was doubly careful to ensure the car's on-board immobiliser system was armed. "M

What You Need To Macsurf The Net

SOMETIMES it seems as if the entire computer press has gone Internet crazy. Sure, there's a lot of good stuff out there, but there's even more dross. Rather than dwelling on the bad, I'll point out a few recent items of interest to Mac users, but first, here's my guide to getting connected. 0. I

Pandora's Pests Had Nothing On These

The destructive creations of virus-makers like the Dark Avenger menace the entire computer world, but keep boffins busy building antidotes and vaccines. John Wilke reports. DEEP inside a locked laboratory, secured by infrared motion-sensors and a padlocked steel bar, a plain beige filing cabinet

The Net Hits The Fringe

THIS year's Edinburgh Festival can add another first to its Fringe benefits with the introduction of a computer cafe by a former computer hacker. Dan O'Brien has a one-man comedy show at the festival, based on a 20th-century Romeo-and-Juliet saga played out with the help of computer technology. C

Compaq, Oracle In Deal

COMPAQ Computer and Oracle are to collaborate on developing, testing, marketing, and supporting scalable database servers, according to the United States industry journal, `PC Week'. `PC Week' quotes sources close to the companies as saying the accord will lead to inclusion of Oracle's databases

A Terminal Obsession

Australians are the second-biggest users of personal computers in the world. But what happens when playing tricks with the terminal becomes an obsession? Ian Munro enters the world of the computer hacker. THE Watcher, also known as Data King, is a self-confessed, one-time high school maths nut wh

Coming Soon, Compatibility For Pcs

IN THE beginning, God _ well, maybe it was Bill Gates _ created the DOS personal computer operating system. But as any computer user knows, the world did not stay that simple for long. In short order, along came Macintosh, and Windows, and Amiga, and permutations of those and other systems. As a

Three Companies Combine To Take Pen In Hand

Three companies have combined to hold the first Australian seminar on pen-based computing for independent software vendors. The companies will also run a Windows for Pen software development competition with a $10,000 development tool kit as the prize. NCR, Microsoft and Co-Cam describe their